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    Conical fermenter recommendation

    Big topic and no one size fits all. What I think I'm looking for in descending order: price. I can spend but am frugal at heart. Like to keep the fermenter itself under $200 but realistically can afford a lot more. ~7 gallon/30L yeast harvesting trub dumping weight (50 pounds is about the max...
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    Machine House Mild Clong

    Bill Arnott, owner and head brewer at Machine House brewery is a friendly chap from the UK. Happy to talk beers and give hints to homebrewers. This recipe is a mashup of what he told me on two different occasions, combined with what was published in Beerandberewing.com. Machine House is only...
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    Beer Cleanse aka All Beer no food diet

    Anyone done a beer cleanse? Historically, it is put forward that the "Paulaner monks" in Germany came up with Dopplebock (modern day's Salvator) to nourish them thru the 40 days of Lent. I'm agnostic, but happy to appropriate anything useful from any religion. Here's a more modern take, and...
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    Planning a Real Ale trip to London. Help appreciated.

    Okay, combine a few years of trying to mimic dozens of Shut Up About Barclay Perkins without knowing what real ale should taste like, a divorce in the next 6 months, so a week long getaway to London (or elsewhere, I'm flexible) is on the cards in Jan or Feb. I'd like to see a few sites but...
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    I've been doing it all wrong -- English Mild Epiphany

    Start with a disclaimer that I've never been to the UK. BUT I have been interested in English session beers (which is most of them, right?), and been brewing a lot of English style low ABV beers for the past few years. Tonight (on the way to the airport for a biz trip to Hanoi) I stopped by...
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    Realistic to expect that sanitization temperature might save my infected 30L Speidel

    Checking if anyone has experience or even a decent WAG on my Speidel. I'd rather not toss this 30L (8 gallons) plastic fermenter. Unfortunately, I listened to a podcast about pichia apotheca, got my hands on some, did a bunch of experiments, decided that it wasn't horrible but the taste was...
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    What strains make up the "Whitbread" yeast?

    Calling all English yeast meisters Trying to zero in on what strains make up the Whitbread yeast. Probably no definitive answer unless Whitbread brewery or one of the brew masters has shared. But maybe can get to a ballpark. I'm mainly driven by seeing a lot of Shut Up Barclay recipes featuring...
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    Solera Cyser: avoiding camden tablets

    I like to brew beer. I've also played around with a very basic cyser (2 gallons Costco apple juice, 5 pounds Costco honey, top up to 4-5 gallons liquid, pitch some kinda beer yeast, ferment and drink). Done probably 10ish batches have nothing against Camden tablets per say, but as a brewer...
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    Kveik: all things Opshaug strain version

    White Labs just released their Kveik Opshaug strain WLP518, and looks to be a core strain now. Thought it would be a good idea to consolidate a new "all things Opshaug" post that is easy to find. According to White Labs: this kveik strain was isolated from a mixed culture which belonged to...
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    Need a substitute for London Ale III aka Boddinton's yeast

    Yeast meisters - need help I am going for this Shut Up About 1939 Boddington Mild recreation. The challenge I have is I dislike the Wyeast 1318 London ale III (aka Boddington yeast) taste in my beers. I've made 3-4 batches and split batches with London III, and I simply don't like it. I don't...
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    Is honey a good invert sugar for British style beers?

    I've been getting into Shut Up About Barclay Perkins and trying many of the mild, bitter, PA and porter recipes. These almost all specify invert sugar #1 or #3. In the US, I can get Lyle's Golden Syrup, which is ~50% invert #1 and 50% sucrose. Also, off of Amazon I ordered 100% invert to test...
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    Where to find real ale and a genuine beer engine in San Diego?

    Going to San Diego in February. I've never been to the UK, but want to find a micro or brew pub in the San Diego area with something that CAMRA would be satisfied with. Would really like a place that offers traditional mild, brown, bitter, pale ale, etc. served with a beer engine. Any...
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